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When I visited Hong Kong, the airline I travelled on lost my luggage. I was forced to buy underwear in HK.
I'm 6'6, and at the time weighed in at 225 lbs. Unfortunately, the only size I could find which fit my 36 inch waist were labeled "Fatty Briefs" and depicted a cartoonish drawing of a hideously obese asian man on the front. My wife laughed for hours.

Basically China has a huge population, and medium is a common shirt size a person would wear (At least I assume so). Now factor how Asian countries have shirts 2-3 times smaller than our medium. China fits a fuckload of people into Small or Extra Small.

ok dude i'm in school to become a teacher so I'm here to explain this shit as the original person you asked. check it:

The joke is that /u/The_Ninja_Nero said most asian countries are smaller than american sizes. (rather than saying asian sizes are smaller than american sizes). So if you took that literally, it would mean that an asian country (let's say china) is smaller than an american size (lets say a medium t-shirt).

So just to give you the overall transformation of the original comment into the joke:

Most Asian countries are 2-3 sizes smaller than American sizes --->
China is smaller than a medium (US) shirt.

Yep. There are some young people who are super tall, but there's not that many of them. At 182 cm, I would be only "a bit above average" in many western countries, which changed into "taller than almost everyone" in Korea.

EDIT: for those complaining about my link, here's the real data showing average height of men aged 20-21 in 2012 but it's in Korean. Basically, the vertical columns are national in the first followed by district breakdowns. The rows show region, number of people, height in 5cm breakdowns and with the last four showing mean, rounded mean, min and max. It's clear that the average is 173.7 and there are very many who are over 181cm (6'0" is about 182.8cm) and quite a few over 186. Yes, people over 186 are still only 2%, but I find it very difficult to believe that PA2SK only met a handful of those people in 2 years. It's also important to note that, in that cohort, US men average 177.6cm -hardly a massive difference.

That actually still shows that Korean males average 8 cm shorter than American males. And American females average 6 cm taller than Korean females. If PA2SK is indeed 6 feet tall (~183 cm), then they would tower over the average Korean male by 15 cm (about half of a foot).

As best as I can tell, the vertical axis is some percentage change in height between the two age groups, which approximate a generational span. Korea may have larger values on this axis, but what the data doesn't quantify is this growth in time. Perhaps with modern nutrition human males can be expected to be 175 cm tall with females at 163 cm tall (note the strong concentration of countries at this point) and countries like Mexico and Korea are still playing catch-up.

TL;DR: Graphs are misleading and you can interpret the data in any number of ways. But the data you cited does seem to back PA2SK's claim.

Forgive me, that link was to back up the first part of my point: that the average height is skyrocketing.

...in Korea young men are 6 cm taller than their fathers’ generation and women 4 cm taller than their mothers’ generation.

If you only look at people age 20, then the average height in Korea is much higher at 173.7. You'll have to forgive the fact that the data is in Korean. The first column is national data and the fourth row from the bottom is the averages.

That's interesting but that's a very isolated sample. For one thing it's only men, if you consider men are half the population than it's not 2%, it's 1%. Then you have to consider that Korea has one of the lowest birthrates in the world and the population is skewed toward the elderly and older Koreans tend to be quite a bit shorter, then it's not 1% it's some small fraction of 1% of the population that is taller than 186 cm. So basically one out of every few hundred Koreans is taller than 186 cm. That sounds reasonable and not far off from my experience. When I was on the subway I was always the tallest person on my car. When I was walking down the street I was looking at the top of everyones head. Very rarely did I see someone who was taller than me.

I have trouble with getting the shirt past my boobs-like im being suffocated trying to get a damn asian shirt on. They're by no means large, but the shirts were not made for above A's and B's.
So I feel your pain.

I went to Japan a few years ago, liked some of the female fashion, I'm a 5'11 girl, I couldn't fit into anything. My shoulders are too wide and my arms too big to wear anything and my legs are too long for their trousers. I'm a UK size 12 (14 for jackets though because of my arms and shoulders). That really sucked.

I never understood how a set measurement can vary so much based upon brand and specific item of clothing. I have two pairs of shorts that are 32", one is too tight and barely closes and I have to wear a belt with the other pair.

I was looking at buying some shirts online that I think came from Korea. The measurements made nonsense to me. To simple fit my shoulders, the chest was huge. I didn't get it. So I asked a Korean guy I knew and he confirmed it: "Korean men's clothing have very narrow shoulders." He actual bought clothes from the west because his shoulders were too wide.

I'm also in Japan, here for 3 months. My coworkers asked me if I need to buy any clothes or anything... I just laughed and laughed. My shoe size is US11 womens, and I have huge hips/boobs. I sincerely doubt that I could find anything in this country that would fit me... xD

Haha the work I'm doing here is volunteer and I'm a college student, so I don't have an abundance of cash. A yukata wouldn't look very good on me. I have a pretty small waist, but since my boobs and hips are so large, a yukata would make it look like everything in between is filled in. :( They aren't exactly designed for curvy women.

I bought a large t-shirt in Scotland forgetting that "large" sizes in the US are, well, larger than the rest of the world. It does not look good on me. This was also illustrated by the fact that a medium soda is not the size of a bucket like it is here, it's the size medium used to be 20+ years ago.

Sorry, I don't keep up on hoodie fads across the world. But the hip hop culture wears them extremely baggy, so they are made extremely baggy. I don't think you are thinking of the same baggy hoodie that I am.

This is why J. Crew is being unfairly attacked because of their new 000 size line of clothes. They are competing in Asian markets and many Asians are very tiny. But people are bitching that they are "setting an unhealthy example by offering this size to the public " and blah blah fucking blahhhh.

Shut the fuck up people. Some people are naturally thin. Stop being upset just because you aren't.

On the opposite end, I recently went shopping in the US for shirts(I'm Canadian). I usually wear a medium or a large as a 6ft 180lb guy, but every medium shirt I tried on looked like an XL on me. I ended up getting a small, makes me wonder what an actual small guy needs to wear down there, an xxs?

Nah, just that being the same weight doesn't mean the same size, even at the same height. You can have someone with 0% body fat at 180, and someone else who has never lifted a weight/done physical work in their life at 180.

Clothing sizes mean nothing... there's difference between countries, between brands in the same countries etc etc. the only thing that's consistent is that extra small is probably not going to fit healthy males.

My girlfriend is six feet tall, half-Korean half-White. On a trip with her parents to Korea, the airline lost her luggage. She was trapped there for a month with basically just the clothes on her back. She had to buy men's extra-large shirts (Most of which were terrible) and wash her jeans in the tub once a week. To this day, she won't check luggage and I can't blame her.

I go shopping in mexico every once in awhile and I'll be damned if I don't have to get like XXXL. I'm not fat at all. I'm just a rather large guy. now I don't even question it. i just go straight for the XXXL. Sometimes I have to do the XXXXL.